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For those normal humans who prefer to live in an aesthetically pleasing built environment, we're in luck! The #Arkitekturupproret is upon us! Strap in, strap up and fight the New Classical Fight!

Michael Diamant joins us via an encrypted connection from his anti-Modernist bunker in Stockholm, whence he discourses on the horrendous violations of human rights committed on the daily by architectural malpractice. Tune in to find out why he created the awesome website New Traditional Architecture & Urbanism https://newtrad.org/and why he is on a mission to dismantle the dominance in Europe of horribly ugly buildings created by Modernists with shriveled souls and a thorough lack of aesthetic principles.

It's a twisting, turning tale of social ostracism leading to bad design convictions resulting in the sheer horror of nasty looking buildings all around us. Next time you're at the raw bar buffet and turn a cold shoulder to a young architectural student, just think about the repercussions that social slight may bring.

Join the Uprising! Demand objective aesthetics! Eschew relativism! Join us as we push for a return to objective beauty and the types of buildings people enjoy living in and around, rather than simply enduring.

In addition to his website, you can find his gorgeous photographs and architectural ruminations across various platforms:

https://twitter.com/michael_diamant

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Klassisknyproduktion

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArchitecturalRevival/

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Lawyer, engineer and entrepreneur Bob Seeman dropped by the Messy Times studios to share his criticisms of Bitcoin as currently implemented.  Bob is a deep thinker as well as the author of Coinmen and an upcoming book written under his pseudonym Nakaloco.   

Join us as we dive into the depths of relative versus absolute value, what constitutes an asset, how and if regulators ever add value and other enticing topics!  Brace for Category 4 Enlightentainment.   

Once you've heard Nakaloco-san bash the living bejeebers out of BTC, might we suggest as a palate cleanser that you check out CoinGeek's Bitcoin 101 free course offering? Click here to get a clear handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing: https://tpow.app/ebc70fcc

Experienced attorney and cyber insurance expert Bruce De'Medici visits the Messy Times studios for a robust and highly Enlightentaining conversation about the cyber risk ecosystem. Bruce focuses on helping small and medium sized businesses grapple with a very hostile environment, which sees them buffeted on all sides by hackers, nation-states, insurance companies and their "own" - HAH! - government.

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We are delighted to have Kurt return to the studios to further untangle the general public's confusion about how Bitcoin actually works.  Join us to discover why environmentalists and power grid operators should love Bitcoin miners, what a SHA-256 hash is (you know you were afraid to ask), why a basic laptop used to get you 6 Bitcoins every 10 minutes and how all of this resembles little children hunting for Easter eggs in an overgrown lawn.

Messy Times is delighted to welcome Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli in the studio for a deep dive discussion about green bonds, carbon markets and separating substance from greenwashing fluff in the capital markets. It is not every day that we get to host a former City of London Aldermanic Sheriff for a dialogue about the perils of non-financial accounting and how "stakeholders" are trying to separate investors from their money in the name of very fuzzy concepts around "justice" expressed in variable and highly subjective ways.

Join us as we kick around the sacred cows of ESG and global weather patterns, discuss why a dozen US Attorneys General are suing BlackRock for placing trendy political whims above their sole fiduciary duty to maximize client financial returns and even touch on how entire nations like Chile are either gambling irresponsibly with their citizens' wealth or are maximizing that wealth through sovereign bond market enforcement measures.

Throughout it all, let's bear in mind that times this messy require stalwart optimism to steer a course through. Let's save the pessimism for better times!

Send this to everyone you know who could use some #Enlightentainment and don't forget to subscribe! Michael will be returning, with a brand new, exciting role and more keen insights to share! You won't want to miss that!

Free people using free markets is the only thing that has ever lifted people out of poverty.  From Irish mutual societies to the advanced Internet of Economics, tune in for a rollicking intellectual ride connecting LEGO kits to #DLT on the way to global prosperity free from the stifling rent-seeking of companies that COULD offer truly low-cost effective solutions, but choose not to by sustaining artificial barriers with high costs.  Greg Chew's company @QPQ Global has created the universally available buffet of technologies required for true frictionless #interoperability versus highly expensive #interconnectivity. Lots of interested parties who've raised billions of dollars in VC money love to tout the supposed virtues of interconnectivity.  Guess who might want to put pressure on someone to shut his yap about an extremely low-cost transaction model which gets closer to #Satoshi's original #Bitcoin vision than anyone else has yet done?  Come enjoy the discussion that is sure to get Your Glitteringly Enlightentaining Host banned from this year's crypto conference circuit!  On the way, you'll discover that Real Capitalism may be at hand for the first time in human history.

Messy Times is delighted that Bitcoin Historian Kurt Wuckert, Jr. dropped by the studios. Join us for a truly #Enlightentaining discussion.  Highlights include why Small Blockers are the Social Justice Warriors of Bitcoin, why Ludwig van Mises was the bomb and how money - O! The sweet crypto irony of it all! - distorted Satoshi's original vision into the hodge podge mess we're now trying to sort out.

We are honored that @Joshua Henslee dropped by the @Messy Times studios for an in-depth conversation about blockchain, how Bitcoin (BTC) differs from Original Flavour Bitcoin (BSV), why massive numbers of "cryptocurrencies" share correlated characteristics with one market factor, how far these "new" markets have drifted from #Satoshi's original intent, and how real applications and real value will be created from the ashes of this first enthusiastic phase of goofiness.  Tune in for a blockchain-powered market explication that slaps as we append this block of #Enlightentainment to the immutable chain of startlingly fresh offerings.

Experienced mining CEO Mark Saxon visits Messy Times to discuss the paradox at the heart of our industry.  Humanity's present and future depend critically on the materials we mine from the earth and the food we grow.  So why are so many investors reluctant to commit the capital required to grow this fundamental input to the success of society and a flourishing, environmentally healthy planet?

We are delighted and honored to have Minister Høegh Kenneth Høeghvisit the Messy TimesMessy Times studios for a wide-ranging discussion. During a lively conversation, we cover current trade and investment policy for Greenland, the glorious tourism opportunities its natural and cultural wonders provide and of course, the topic near and dear to my heart, mining.

We even touch on a bit of the intertwined history between Greenland and the United States going back to US Secretary of State Seward. Tune in - you'll get a whole new appreciation for the massive island nation sitting right off North America!